Webinar: Informatica Cloud Spring 2012 Release 10am Pacific

We are excited to announce Informatica Cloud Spring 2012. All customers were upgraded on April 21st. With this release we have introduced major enhancements throughout the cloud service, such as the ability to migrate entire task flows between development and production instances of Informatica Cloud. We have also announced a new Developer Edition, is currently available in an early access program for partners. The Developer Edition will introduce the following: A cloud connectivity API to help you build connectors to a variety of applications rapidly and make them available through the Informatica Marketplace. Cloud...

Webinar: Integrating Salesforce and SAP 10am Pacific

Are you trying to make your enterprise more social by integrating SAP and Salesforce but facing integration projects that are too complex and lengthy? Are you losing valuable time manually moving SAP data to and from Salesforce? Is inconsistent data making it impossible to track and report on vital information? If so you'll want to be sure to attend this educational webinar. You’ll learn: The best practices and techniques to integrate Salesforce and SAP A proven and flexible approach to migrating and synchronizing data between both systems How quickly and effectively Informatica Cloud can integrate your Salesforce...

Informatica Adds Developer Edition to Cloud Data-integration Platform

Informatica has added a new developer edition to its cloud-based data-integration platform in a bid to further expand a partner ecosystem around the service, the company announced Monday. Now available through an early-access program, Informatica Cloud Developer Edition provides systems integrators and software vendors with a Java-based programming interface for creating connectors to various cloud services. The connectors can have "complete native connectivity" to data objects within an application and can also be easily packaged for sale through Informatica's marketplace, according to the company's website. ...

Some Thoughts about Data Proximity for Big Data Calculations – Part 2

Treating Big Data Performance Woes with the Data Replication Cure Blog Series – Part 2 In my last posting, I suggested that the primary bottleneck for performance computing of any type, including big data applications, is the latency associated with getting data from where it is to where it needs to be. If the presumptive big data analytics platform/programming model is Hadoop, (which is also often presumed to provide in-memory analytics), though, there are three key issues: 1)     Getting the massive amounts of data into the Hadoop file system and memory from where those data sets originate, 2)    ...

Do You Know Where Your Existing Database Security Solutions Are Failing?

Recently, Oracle announced that its latest April critical patch update does not address the TNS Poison vulnerability uncovered by a researcher 4 years ago. In addition to this vulnerability from an attacker, organizations face data breaches from internal negligence and insiders. In a May 2012 survey by the Ponemon Institute, 50% say sensitive data contained in databases and applications has been compromised or stolen by malicious insiders such as privileged users. On top of that 68% find it difficult to restrict user access to sensitive information in IT and business environments. While databases offer basic security...

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 Informatica is a widely used ETL tool for extracting the source data and loading it into the target after applying the required transformation. In the following section, we will try to explain the usage of Informatica in the Data Warehouse environment with an example. Here we are not going into the details of data warehouse design and this tutorial simply provides the overview about how INFORMATICA can be used as an ETL tool Note: The exchanges/companies that are explained here is for illustrative purpose only. Bombay Stock Exchange...